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Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator by itishappy on Thursday March 20, 2025 @05:11PM (#43429029)
Yes, electron-beam lithography is fantastic but also fantastically slow. Sorta like building a Lego model brick by brick vs layer by layer. It's still used for reticle fabrication and repair.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Electron-beam_lithography

Edit: Confused SEMs and STMs, but the principle described above applies to both.

Re:Want even tinier chips? Use a particle accelerator by sevensor on Thursday March 20, 2025 @09:41PM (#43431044)
Where the reticle is worth patterning expensively because it gets used in so many subsequent exposures using light rather than electrons.